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This is really fun! What would be really satisfying would be to be able to make “creatures” out of real words. Currently a lot of the common vowels represent “

• pimlottc 2y ago
  The regex for this (for left-facing creatures) is ^[aeimpvy][bcfgjknqtw]*[dhloruxz]$ Unfortunately, as you point out, all the vowels are in the end segments, so there's no creatures with a midbody longer than 2 letters. Here's what you get [0]: ad ago ah and ankh awl ax ego eh end er etch ex id inch into itch However, you can also include words that form multiple creatures [1]. Some favorites: aggrandizer alexander equalizer inlander mumbler phalanx poacher prelingual voided 0: https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E%5Baeimpvy%5D%5Bbcfgjknqtw%5D*%5Bdhloruxz%5D%24 https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E%5Baeimpvy%5D%5Bbcfgj... 1: https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E(%5Baeimpvy%5D%5Bbcfgjknqtw%5D*%5Bdhloruxz%5D)*%24\ https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E(%5Baeimpvy%5D%5Bbcfg...*
  • pimlottc 2y ago
    It actually gets a tiny bit better for upper case letters, as the midbody character set includes both U and Y. So the winner for longest single-creature word is: ADJUDGE Other good ones [0]: AUTUMN IMPUGN OUTGUN SMUDGE AUGUR FUDGE FUGUE LYMPH 0: https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E%5Bacfilosw%5D%5Bdgjmpqtuxy%5D*%5Bbehknrvz%5D%24 https://regexdictionary.com/regex?r=%5E%5Bacfilosw%5D%5Bdgjm...
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• jprete 2y ago
  I like that idea! Probably needs ligatures or some way to get glyphs to overlap or reverse direction.